Price-ticket and sample holder.



' No. 673,7I6. Patented May 7, I901.

F. 0. LUECK.

PRICE TICKET AND SAMPLE HOLDER.

(Application filed Dec. 31, 1900.!

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FRANK O. LUECK, OF TOMAH, WISCONSIN.

PRICE-TICKET AND SAMPLE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,716, dated May 7,1901.

Application filed December 31, 1900. Serial No. 41,679. LNo model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK O. LUEOK, acitizen of the United States,residing at Tomah, in the county of Monroe and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Price-Ticket and SampleHolders, of which the fol-lowing is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a device adapted to receive and be connectedwith not only the price-tag or reversible ticket usually attached tobolts of cloth or of other textile fabrics, but also samples of saidcloth, which device and samples can be temporarily removed from theinterior-of the bolt of cloth and replaced therein. Dry-goods merchantsare subjected to great loss ofmaterials by the common request'ofcustomers for samples ofperhaps three or four pieces of cloth to show topersons at home or to select from at a later date, a strip an inch ormore wide and three to six inches long being cut from each bolt and nosale made. Later on another customer may come to buy one or more yardsof the sampled cloth, but generally objects to have the sampled widthincluded in the purchase, and therefore, to make a sale, an inch or moreof the whole width of cloth is lost to the merchant, and this loss isimportant on expensive cloths and is constantly repeated for nearlyevery sale made from a bolt of cloth. The objects of my inventiorp areto prevent these successive losses and to limit the loss to only oneinch of cloth per bolt even if a series of samples had been given and aseries of inter- Vening sales had been made of portions of said bolt. Iaccomplish these objects by means of combined price-ticket holders andsampleholders shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of a bolt of cloth with a combined price-ticket holderand sample-holder constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 isa perspective view, on a larger scale, of the combined price-ticketholder and sample-holder constructed in accordance with my invention.Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the front half of the same.Fig. 4 is a modification of the form shown in Fig. 1.

In said drawings, Arepresents a bolt of cloth wound around acentralblock or board block is the tag or ticket holder 0, which consists of astrip of thin sheet metal, as tinned iron, folded upon itself,preferably about half-way ofits length, to constitute two leaves 0- andd. About half an inch from their fold said leaves are bent together downat right angles to their horizontal top surfaces to constitute a supportfor the back of the card, tag, or ticket E, upon which are generallywritten the cost of the cloth per yard, its selling price, the number ofyards, the. To support the bottom edge of the ticket E, the leaves 0 dare bent together horizontally within about a sixteenth of an inch oftheir fold to constitute a narrow shelff as a support for the bottomedge of said ticket.

To retain the ticket E secured to its back support e, a narrow strip ofthin sheet metal G, slightly longer than the width of the leaves 0 d, isplaced against the back of the card support e, and its ends 9 are foldedforward over the ends of the price-card or in position to retain it.Said strip G is thus kept immovably secured to the leaves 0 cl of thesample-holder, as it is prevented from moving up by abutting against thebottom of the leaf (1 and is prevented from moving down on account ofits ends g abutting upon the narrow shelf f. The leaves 0 d constitute aportfolio, between which are placed samples of the cloth or the longstrip from which samples are to be cut. Through the strip G one or twosmall nails or tacks h are made to pass, to be pushed into the end ofthe board B to lightly anchor the device to said board. When samples ofthe cloth are desired, the combined ticketholder and sample-holder ispulled out from between the board B and the inner coil of the bolt ofcloth, a sample removed, and the device containing the balance ofsamples replaced in the same location from which it had been Withdrawn.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the leaves 0 d are united at theirback ends it, or, in other Words, the leaf 0 is bent upon itself at kand folded under, the bottom portion extending forwardly substantiallyup to the vertical front end of the device, thus providing a pockethaving open sides for the reception of samples of cloth, the partsretaining B, as usuaL Projecting over one end of said bent forwardly andtoward each other substantially as described.

2. A holder for price-ticket and carrier for samples of cloth,consisting of a narrow and substantially horizontal sheet of metalhaving its outer portion bent downwardly and the edge of said outerportion bent outwardly, in combination with a narrow strip of metalhearing transversely against the back of the downward portion and havingits ends bent forward and toward each other substantially as described.

3. A holder for a price-ticket and for samples of cloth consisting of anarrow sheet of metal bent upon itself and having its front portionvertical, the lower edge of said front portion being bent forwardly andits upper edge bent rearwa'rdly, in combination with a narrow strip ofmetal bearing transversely against the back of the vertical portion andhaving its ends bent forwardly and toward each other substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK O. LUEOK.

Witnesses:

CARRIE J ONES, F. M. HART.

